The Clippers needed an answer, and quick.
They gave one, and wow.
Their response Monday night to a playoff-opening debacle against the Golden State Warriors was powerful enough to temporarily subdue thoughts of the historic Clippers jinx while...

OAKLAND — Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said Sunday the National Basketball Players Assn. wants the NBA to bar Clippers owner Donald Sterling from playoff games the rest of this season and impose the maximum penalty allowed under league bylaws if...

Those 18 pounds might not have been the only thing Matt Barnes shed over the summer.
He also appears to have lost his shooting touch.
The Clippers small forward made one of seven shots Tuesday night against the Golden State Warriors and it actually...

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Here are five takeaways from the Clippers’ 125-107 exhibition loss to the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night at Oracle Arena that dropped L.A. to 1-5 in the preseason:
1. Matt Barnes is still searching for his shot: The small forward admitted he was mentally pressing after making just one of seven shots and missing all three of his three-pointers. He’s made only three of 31 (9.7%) shots and one of 18 (5.6%) three-pointers. Two things working in Barnes’ favor: It’s just the...

Fleetwood Mac, with Christine McVie back in the fold, is apparently having too much fun to stop.
The quintet -- McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie -- announced 28 new shows, beginning on Jan. 16 in St. Paul, Minn., and stretching all the way through the end of March. Among those dates is a Feb. 7 show at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville.
The Mac will, of course, have already played in Connecticut by then; they're booked at the XL Center in Hartford on Nov. 1. But...

AT GOLDEN STATE
When: 7:30.
Where: Oracle Arena, Oakland.
On the air: TV: TNT; Radio: 980.
Records: Clippers 33-15, Warriors 27-19.
Record vs. Warriors: 1-1.
Update: These teams have developed a chippy rivalry going back to last season, when the Clippers thought the Warriors celebrated too much after making shots. Clippers forward Blake Griffin and Warriors counterpart Draymond Green were ejected from Golden State's 105-103 victory last month in Oakland, a testy game that resulted in both...

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OAKLAND — Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash didn't join the Lakers on their trip but it somehow got worse.
Pau Gasol couldn't even leave his hotel room Saturday because of an upper-respiratory infection.
To say the Lakers were injury-riddled, short-handed, depleted or any of the other...

PHOENIX — It makes Lakers fans cringe to remember the Smush Parker era, a two-year span decidedly more goofy than golden and characterized by first-round playoff knockouts via the Phoenix Suns.
But what's Parker up to these days? Can the Lakers sign him for a few weeks?
Down to their fifth-string point guard, the Lakers rode the lead horse in a turnover parade Saturday against Golden State, committing 24 turnovers with only 11 assists, one of the most unbalanced assist-to-turnover ratios in team...

As yet, nobody's succeeded in bring Bruce Springsteen back to Hampton Coliseum. (It's been a few decades since he last rocked there.) On the positive side, Springsteen will return to Charlottesville on Oct. 23, promoters have announced.
Tickets go on sale Sept. 14 from Ticketmaster.
The show, part of Sprinsteen's "Wrecking Ball World Tour," features Virginia Beach's Jake Clemons on sax. The young musician is the nephew of the late, great Clarence Clemons.
Earlier this year in Norfolk, Jake participated...